skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point, which everyone seems to be missing, is, if a judged said "You must record all your conversations" I feel like most people on this board would say the judge crossed a line. That being required to record all your conversations, as in carry around a recording device and make sure every conversation you have is recorded, conversation in hallways, conversations in the bathroom, conversations at the gym, conversations at lunch, dinner, in bed (maybe you're dating a co-worker), conversations in meetings. I feel strongly people would object that's not ok, not constitutional, 1984ish, etc...

I get that I should talk to a lawyer. That's not the point. The point is, IMO, recording chat is over the line. email yes, documents yes, chat and video conferencing no. People would find a judge ordering all employees direct face to face conversations being recorded to be unacceptable. To me chat = slightly facilitated face to face conversions. To me it's a slippery slope. If chat is ok today, video conferencing tomorrow, then demand total surveillance next because it will be technically possible (already is). That fact that it's trivial to record chat ignores that it shouldn't be required to be recorded in the first place.

People here are okay with because is popular to hate on Google. You're next.
My view has always been that buying gives me price stability. $1000 in mortgage + taxes + fees is only going to change by a hike in taxes but rent changes at the whim of the market.
Here in my west coast city, the mortgage on a 4 bedroom house purchased 10 years ago is the same as a 2 bedroom apartment today.
> wire out of sapphire!

That's basically the same thing as fibreglass, just made from a different solid crystal. It's doable right now: https://www.lasercomponents.com/de-en/product/sapphire-fiber...
How did I not know this until now. Fantastic.
> ... too much careful attention to how you used it.

Zulip has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread, with similar results in utilization.

I like learning and exploring new tools, but if there's one thing I've learned about building them is that most people are only interested in using your tool to the barest minimum to get the result they need. See (without citation) how many software engineers you know don't "understand" Git beyond add / commit / push.

What that means is that if you have a dedicated group of people that is interested in exploring a new tool and understanding it, then great! Those people are going to love the tool and take the time to learn it. But the demands of society / work / time limits means that most of the time, they don't want to spend that time investment. It might be a "waste" of time, it might not solve the right problem, other people also have to invest the time, etc.

That friction is huge. That's why Slack took off at first, and then Discord blew it away in the consumer world. Discord removed those internal silos, had a lot of the same chrome on it that Slack did for IRC, and then they've continued to make certain things very easy to do within their platform (jumping into voice chats, for instance). But, if you see the newest way they've tried to have threads act as forum messages or posts, there's no consensus on how to use them effectively and I haven't seen them used much, as a result.

Anyway, one day we'll get Wave again and hopefully it won't be killed before its time, for those few of us that really loved it.
That’s the job of city to put guardrails in first place.
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The advantage of the Linux model is that you can refactor which library actually contains a function, which is done quite often.
I'm not the GP, but I can tell you how I felt: WTF.

The Tesla Supercharger network is by the far the best thing about the car. There was a period of time when I was doing some very long trips in my Model 3 - dozens of cross country trips over the course of about 2 years. I never once encountered a Tesla charger that didn't just work. Never. We're talking hundreds of charging sessions.

The non-Tesla chargers? I learned real quick that they work only about 20% of the time. They're either broken, won't accept payment, require apps that are too old to work on modern phones, etc, etc. That's even if they're there. About a third of the time, the chargers that should be there aren't.

I honestly don't know how non-Tesla owners do it today. Does Rivian have a good charging network?
Which is why taking on debt to buy property is often a good option - you lock in prices, then they rise. Where I live, house prices double in value every ten years, quite reliably. Recently, it's been faster. In ten years, you're paying rent on a $2m property while someone else is paying down a $500-800k loan (using your example figure).
SE leadership is corrupted, they betrayed thousands of users that contributed.
Has anyone considered a passphrase that splits into three words, where the middle server can decrypt one word and deliver a word and get a response then provide the whole phrase three words to prove it is the messenger that Bob sent?

Or something like that?
Right, I was talking about the financial aspect, not the quality of life.
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The two most popular clients, Gmail and Outlook, are ranked at 25 and 41 (the bottom) respectively.
Because performant flight controllers are written in C, and often ARM assembly.
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Love this app, this is something I've had rolling around in my head for a while and I think it can massively improve developer productivity. Excited to try it when I can use my own code!
Feels like MacOS, chrome and edge and Windows all are pushing for 5px wide auto hidden scroll bars.

I miss the chunky touch friendly ones that were easy to use, honestly.

that said to build off your comment - everything on Palm felt extremely thought about for ease and obvious use end to end and it's part of why I absolutely miss it.
> I'm hearing that Netanyahu supported Hamas, now I'm hearing from you Israel supported Fatah. Which is it?

Netanyahu was not the prime minister at the time of the blockade.

Anyway, if you want to read about the coup attempt: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804

I also made another comment citing Netanyahu stating why he supports Hamas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274152

This is all well documented. But it seems like you are intent on finding charitable interpretations for Israel’s actions while not searching further than “they hate Jews” for Palestine’s. So unless that stance changes, I don’t really see any point in further discussion.
Source for it being identified as a root cause of the Horizon issues.

As far as I can see, there is no evidence that it was.
They don't do tours at all any more. Maybe because they moved into defuelling the rector in 2021: https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-stations/dungeness-b

The other EDF nuclear sites have visitor centres.
Just need to be jerk today, huh?
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How is Israel going to block viewing Al Jazeera content on Youtube from Israel?
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Disproved by subscription-based www.cix.co.uk.
I'm a maintainer of Ratatui (a rust TUI crate). Here's a few links

https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/

https://github.com/ratatui-org/awesome-ratatui

https://discord.com/channels/1070692720437383208/10729061831... (made with ratatui channel on our discord server)

We encourage our users to use https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs to build out demos that look neat.

My particular favorite of the bunch (from a look and feel perspective) is https://github.com/zaghaghi/openapi-tui

Also, not ratatui, but worth a look: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
Wow I wish that I had one of those coffee makers.
Cool, thanks for the info Thomas. I honestly have never looked into YC at all, so I'm definitely not aware of how these things work. I was posting from an honest curiosity.
I was given quite the delta, with $14k on the low end to replace our ancient gas furnace and AC with a 80 perfect efficiency gas furnace and standard AC unit, $20k for low end heat pump with gas backup, and as high as $34k for the every feature box checked.

I'm still shopping around and not giving up, it's just disheartening to see such a high markup.

How's the heat pump been working out for you? I'm a fan of electrify all the things (within reason) lately and combining a heat pump with a moderately sized solar system seem like a nice combination.
I wanted to try it, but I was scared away by the idea that I was creating a new seeming-infinitely-persistent asset I didn't want. Could you put up an actual demo where I can just see an existing graph?
It’s hard to understand that there are some people who aren’t as cautious or vigilant or tech-savvy or self-confident as (or far more self-confident than) yourself?
Lots of vectors don't even require JTAG. Coffee maker type devices are likely to be just a $1 a microcontroller with inbuilt flash which you can fuse when programming to prevent reading but is rarely done in small production runs.

flash for microcontrollers such as ESP, Rpi pico etc is usually saved on an 8-pin flash chip which most people forget about and is easy to unsolder and pop into a reader. bigger devices using bootloaders sometimes store a whole FAT32 filesystem in one of these, you can even unsolder most flash and re-mount it with a little skill and suitable hardware.

I once read an AWS private key stored in plain text from an IOT board once. Go figure!
I wish there was something like BrowserStack but you send a test email and it shows you how it renders on tons of different email clients on various platforms. It wouldn't work for web-based email like Gmail but it would still be useful.
These are all great questions, thank you.

We don't want to serve non-hardware companies that are hiring their first hardware engineers. We want to serve companies of all sizes (including startups) that are building products that are so critical that they can't waste their senior engineers' time to do 10-20 technical interviews a week. These customers will care a lot about their hardware engineers.

Yes, our customers should do more interviewing for candidates that pass the Touvlo interview. We think that our service should be primarily a technical screening before the company invests more in additional interviewing, but you're free to use it for at any step of your recruiting process. There is also more to evaluate in a potential hire than technical skills (for example, cultural match).

> Why did I spend 4 years in engineering school, and build my professional track record, yet have to keep doing these negging tests? Does this company not employ anyone who can get a sense of a fellow engineer's skill and professionalism just by talking with them? Did they read my resume? And now they're not even administering the test themselves?

There's two parts to this:
(1) On one hand, the interview should never feel like a negging test and the interview of a graduate should be completely different from the interview of a senior engineer with 5+ years of experience. And if you are extremely senior with an amazing professional track record, then perhaps no technical interviewing is necessary at all.
(2) On the other hand, no one should feel offended for having to do a technical interview that matches their seniority and experience. It's outsourced to a third party company, because we can do it better and faster. Candidates will be happier, because they can interview outside business hours (incl. weekends) and have a positive experience. Also, the alternative in many cases is that the company won't bother interviewing the candidate at all, or worse, they might send a take-home test that takes hours to 100 candidates and then spend 0-3 minutes reviewing each.

Currently a job-seeker can not get their report card sent to multiple employers, however this is a good idea to consider after getting to a certain scale. At that point, we would essentially become the standard in hardware technical interviewing. Figuring out a fair payment model would be one of the challenges.
Ooh, interesting - so it's clear that the B responded to A, not to A'. And your DAG ends up A'->B->A (where -> means responds to).

OTOH I'm not sure that cycles are even a huge problem.
"closing specified programs" has to be the silliest thing i've ever heard. By the time you close it, it's probably already leaked thousands of packets. The leak of a SINGLE packet is already too much.

Such an "application killing kill switch" is just marketing fluff, it makes zero sense from a security standpoint.
How enterprise software is like baby clothing
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1182635589604171776.html
I have 10 and 9 year-old kids. We don't have school homework either (by design!) so do a little math enrichment at home. Here are a few options we liked:

- MOEMS contests and practices were great for problem solving. You can buy books of previous tests, and try them. Honestly, these are fun math puzzles to solve as an adult, too. This definitely helps them learn important strategies like organizing your work, bootstrapping from simpler problems, looking for patterns, etc.

- Khan academy is fun and gamified. It also helps with computer literacy a bit. The most useful feature for me is that it can quickly identify holes in their understanding.

- Sometimes we watch Numberphile or Stand-up Maths on Youtube if the content is interesting and age-appropriate. This is mostly to cultivate curiosity.

I agree with other posters that ideally there is a "math circle" to work on these items together. Although, sometimes a "family math circle" works, too...

Hope that helps!
Thanks for replying - appreciate you taking the time to engage.

I have no doubt that there is a lot of hardcore maths in economics - I remember learning Koopmans Theorem only to discover he moved over to economics.

Just as there is a lot of deep and niche physics which requires a lot of abstract theory (string theory maybe?) we also have benefited from a lot of applied physics - hopefully I don't need to list all the ways mankind has benefited from applied physics.

Applied economics impacts billions of lives, arguably all of our lives. To the casual outsider, what are some modern economic practices that have fallen out from the maths that is driving the needle today? All the more given your point that despite all our advances in maths computing and physics, we still can't predict the weather.
> Owning… derisks housing both from an expense and sourcing perspective

Except if property taxes increase beyond affordability as they have for many folks in some states recently.
Discord fits in perfectly to the last century. :)
Oh good, I was afraid this was gonna go into cuckoo territory.

Yep, this is what works. All the attempts to turn it into a simple spreadsheet based on something you can easily measure from an office across the state have been so flawed they’re very nearly useless, if not actively harmful. We keep doing it anyway because the people making those calls either don’t understand the field or do, but don’t care because they want to implement bad ideas for political reasons (trend-following to avoid criticism is huge, for one thing)
This project reminds me of a cyberpunk SF story, in which (something like) some super elite hackers, needed for a special job, chose gear old enough to be impervious to the adversary they were facing. (Not cyberdecks contemporary of the setting, but something more like modded Nintendos, which the black ice wouldn't know what to do with.)

I also had that story in mind several years ago, when the Intel Management Engine ridiculousness ticked me off, and I went to a lot of trouble to make and store half a dozen Libreboot X200 "decks".

(Though I don't do 31337 things, so I mostly only ended up using one such deck to keep an eye on my 401(k) account.)
You need to be her call screener
I like DORA metrics as a guideline (Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, time to restore) which aren't perfect but are fairly straight forward to understand and measure. I might look at number of production touches(manual interventions in the delivery pipeline), story points estimated, story points delivered, number of pages, number of bugs created/closed/closed w/ change, number of errors/exceptions. It's possible to hide technical debt here but it eventually start to manifest in one of the stability metrics (bugs, exception, production touches, etc) or a drop in velocity .

Though is more about engineering delivery of the product roadmap. I do like the 'bets' framework in the OP to figuring out whether the product roadmap actually results in meeting the desired goals for the organization (growth, profits, whatever) but these should be measured as different things.
Glass isn't crystalline, it's amorphous. I thought it would have a much lower melting point than sapphire as a result, but it turns out the difference is not nearly as big as I suspected, 1400-1600C vs 2000. TIL.
The demo looks promising. I can see myself using it for my ML modeling logs.
Rent can do that. But in renting you can more easily move to a better paying job.

I'm not sure you're derisking as owning is also subject to local taxes of whatever sort. Those too can increase faster than income.
That's reminiscent of IE, being the most popular and underfeatured.
They store the heat in a tank and feed it back on decompression.
> I don't think it's especially helpful to use this kind of "let's look at an infinite timeline/every possible outcome" type of reasoning. What if a region's local economy crashes and there are no more cars or pedestrians? Those bollards sure seem like a waste of money now! What if? What if?

That would be pretty stupid. We should do what I'm doing instead and focusing on what the acceptable rate of accidents is.

If you check you'll notice I've talked about literally 0 "what ifs" or hypothetical situations beyond picking an arbitrary 80% to showcase that even an arbitrarily good improvement won't make a difference to the process of demanding improvement [0].

But if we're going to demand 0 deaths then the obvious solution is to completely isolate cars and pedestrians. I've seen some similar work to this in the past, and a lot of money thrown at it didn't come up with a better solution for perfect safety. Even isolation won't actually achieve a perfect rate, but it gets it low enough that people won't cotton on for a few decades and that has to do.

If we're not demanding 0 deaths, then the process we use can't be "see a death -> demand improvements". That is like a while loop with no stopping condition - and we're implicitly heading to 0 with it anyway so we may as well short circuit the needless deaths along the way. Someone needs to explain what the target rate is, or how to figure it out.

> It is best to do it iteratively, intelligently, and wisely.

This is road engineering. Engineers have been building roads for 3 millennia, roads for motor vehicles for more than a century and modern statistics has been settled enough for this sort of work for about the same length of time.

We're way past the point where we need to iterate. Say what is acceptable and the engineers will build it. That, in fact, is likely what happened to get the current rate of deaths and injury - someone did a cost benefit and tried to set design standards as close as possible to an optimum point.

If you want them to optimise for something, tell them what you want and they can build it. There is no need to play games with the civil engineers, it is cheaper to just be upfront with design constraints.

[0] If anything, it makes than backlash worse. I've seen people demand Boeing get nationalised for a safety record that is still better than what happens on public roads. The consensus position seems to be investigations and punishments for Boeing management. There is no pleasing some people.
Where is anyone forbidden from putting up pictures on the walls? 99.9% of residential rental contracts just state that the dwelling has to be returned in the condition rented. Go ahead and paint and put holes in the walls, just be sure it’s repainted and patched when you move out.
The institution of widespread public education that looks anything like what we have now isn’t something I’d describe as having meaningfully existed for hundreds of years, let alone as having been stagnant that whole time.
One of my favourite pieces of trivia is that the "nuclear codes" that were so often the subject of some Cold War plot were not necessarily codes as in launch codes, but were/are simulation programs, which were, in aggregate, "codes" (though I'm not 100% clear if a single simulation is a single "code"). Which makes a lot more sense, because simulations would help development, and launch codes would be useless almost immediately as they would change [1].

The IAEA still calls them "codes": https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/oncore/SitePages/Home.aspx

[1] unlike the Permissive Action Link code locks on some weapons, which were deliberately set to all zeroes for decades.
It's way more communist than it is frontier spirit:

- there's only one choice for each item. The Company chooses for you

- the emphasis on (relatively) flat pay structure and high starting wage

- their logo is a big red C
a locally ran reddit-like forum would do wonders for any large or small company

it basically takes the task of organizing and just turns it into a format
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This was a great read. The guy who wrote the Cracked article linked above should probably read this.
Just accept you were not the target audience and skim like the rest of the world. Not every article is written for you. It's available for you to read, but was more than likely not with you in mind. Some of us still like words and the reading of them when they provide details and more in-depth understanding than a tweet.
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Sourcegraph CEO here. We stopped making a standalone Electron app (which was an experiment) and instead remained focused on our web app and editor extensions. You can use Cody in your editor with no server needed. We didn’t fizzle out. :)
The point is that you don't much need these readymade Tasmotas and whatevers. :-)
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Skypilot is worth a mention here:

https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot

Open source CLI to deploy multiple gpu vm’s on all major cloud providers, with an option to use spot pricing with 1 cheap vm used as a controller to always make sure you have the most inexpensive deployment available with failover and load balancing.

It’s like beating the cloud providers at their own game I wouldn’t be surprised if they banned it.